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Hi, I have an apartment in Turkey. The upstairs bathroom has a wooden sloping roof with ye olde worlde type wooden beams going into the tiled walls. Its all very nice looking but the expansion and retraction of the wooden beams over the seasons has caused the grout to crack where it butts up...

Hi, I am looking to bring our washing machine in from the utility strip in the garage and fit it into a 600mm base unit space in the kitchen. I have measured and the washing machine will fit once the carcass of the 600mm base unit has been removed. The only issue i can see is how to mount...

I was having a look at a seized on british gas trv at my father in laws house. Had a towel wrapped around it and manly attempts in excess of a jam jar lid tightness to no avail. I have decided to replace the unit itself. Does anyone know where i can buy the complete valve assembly, i only want...

Hello fellow diyer's. Last year i posted a thread on here for my extension. In the end i floored the extension, kitchen and family room with the reclaimed maple dance floor. I had enough left over to floor the hallway which is the basis of this thread. I also had enough left over to give to my...

29/12/08 Hello there fellow Diy'ers, My names Joe and i do like a bit of DIY. The upcoming year main project is the garden. My famliy and i completed an extension on the house in 08. This reduced the size of garden we had left so we bought the property next door and nicked the garden! So...

My main project for 2009 is going to be a deck at the rear of the house with a hot tub(round, deep all wood style). I also plan to build a pergola around the tub using old oak posts if i can get them, semi screen it and run ivy all over it and across the roof beams(ripping off an idea i saw in a...

Hi, For the past couple of years i have been running a plan for my garden in the back of my head and i wonder if anyone would like to give me some pointers? I have just completed an extension at the rear of the house which will be the new lounge. I will soon be moving onto the patio area...

Hi, I am planning on laying a patio(60sqm) over the coming months. My wife does not like the current vouge for riven stone and wants a smooth finish. Our old patio was a 3/2 & 2/2 concrete slab affair so i see where she is coming from regarding pooled water dirt traps in the riven stones. We...

Morning peeps, I am fast approaching the time when i will start to lay my reclaimed solid maple floor. I am going against advice already received on this forum(sorry bout that) and i am going to lay the flooring on top of 22mm caberfloor. I have decided to secret nail and glue the maple into...

Hi i had a new system boiler and tank fitted a couple of years ago with an eye to an extension i was planning. I had the supply and return pipes to the future extension radiators terminated with gate valves(22mm pipe) under the floor. I plan to run in the two radiators for the extension myself...

Hello again diy peeps. Finally got back onshore to a pleasant surprise, it turns out that the maple flooring i sourced is working out at a volume of 100Sqm instead of the 40Sqm i was told was there! Anyway got a few Sqm's home today and realised theres no way i am sanding this lot down so...

Nice build, sympathetically done with regard to the exisiting structure.

I am currently building an extension oot the back of the house(6.4M wide and 5M projection. I have managed to source a maple dancefloor from the 1930's which is T&G 2 1/4" wide by 2 foot long by 3/4" thick. I have enough to cover the extension but at the same time i am replacing the flooring in...

Hi, I am about to start an extension at the rear of the house and i am extending my c/h system to include the extension. It a new system(1 year old) and was designed to cope with the then hypothetical extra radiators in the extension. I have used 2 different calculators, filling them in as...

Hi, First post so bear with me please. I am doing a loft conversion at the moment. Part of this is going to be a complete heating system. At the moment i run a warm air gas system. Anyway that's getting junked. In total the new system will have 15 radiators to cover the whole house(can't be...